Joe Walsh live tweets racial slur fight

Former Republican congressman Joe Walsh says he has been suspended from his radio show after repeatedly attempting to use racial slurs on air to underscore a point about the Washington Redskins name controversy.

Walsh, a tea party favorite from Illinois who spent one term in Congress from 2011-2013, tweeted about the incident in real time, noting that the station repeatedly cut his sound as he used the slurs.

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“And here comes to the General Manager,” Walsh tweeted, after noting that the station kept muting his sound. “It appears I can say Redskins, which is supposedly offensive, but when I say other words, commercial.”

The former congressman, defeated by Democratic Rep. Tammy Duckworth in 2012, appeared to be protesting his ability to use the term “Redskins,” but not other racially sensitive terms. The U.S. and Patent and Trademark Office Trial and Appeal Board on Wednesday canceled six federal trademarks of the Washington NFL team name, deeming the term “disparaging to Native Americans.” It isn’t immediately clear whether Walsh was protesting that decision or whether he was making a statement that he shouldn’t be allowed to use the term on air.

In a bizarre series of tweets appearing to document the incident, Walsh defended himself while ultimately noting that he was suspended indefinitely.